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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Five Years Before the Screen

Five years have passed before the screen (my thanks to R.H. Dana Jr. for the catchy title which I paraphrase) since the Palouse Wargaming Journal set sail into the blogosphere. Prodded by only slight nudging from a few friends to "get with the times," I fired up PWJ in September 2012. My, how time flies and postings accrue. To date, post count exceeds 800. Never did I envision having that much material to share. Many of the posts offer up details on recent painting output but posting units as they depart the painting desk is a good method for chronicling my collections.Maintaining a blog I discovered to be quite rewarding. Reporting hobby activities including both painting and playing has provided much enjoyment. Blogging also provided an incentive and motivation to push on with "just one more unit" in a project I thought finished. Are projects really ever truly complete? After more than forty years in the hobby, I still have no answer although some projects remain dormant. Maintaining the Journal through regular contributions allows me to focus catalog my efforts and track where I have tread and where the next path may lead. I can look over my shoulder and see what went before even when memory of those activities fades.

Besides curating a large amount of information on my hobby activities, the most rewarding benefit gained is the introduction to a number of like-minded individuals. Friendships gained through these communications are important and appreciated.

To show my appreciation and gratitude to those who stop by for an occasional visit or regular readers who not only take the time for a visit but also to compose a reply, I offer a drawing for a gift card or three.

The Rules for Contest Entry:There are two criteria for participating in the drawing (both must be satisfied):

Publicly follow the blog by clicking on the "Follow" button (if you have not already done so).

Leave a comment to this post declaring your wish be entered into the drawing.

Get Extra Entries:

Top Commenter Bonus: To reward the Top Commenters and to encourage others toward more frequent contributions, the Top 10 will receive additional weightings to their entries. For the verbose Top 10, to your singular entry, you will receive additional entries equal to the inverse order of your ranking. That is, Dartfrog gets ten more entries while Cyrus would receive one additional entry.

Publicize the Contest: If a contestant is, perhaps, willing to reduce the probability of winning by prompting others to join in, publicize this Give-Away on your blog. Put a link back to your blog in the comments for verification. In exchange for possibly diluting your change of winning, you get five extra entries.

The Prizes:

If your winning entry is pulled from the Random Sampling (without replacement) Hat, the winner will receive an electronic gift card to the wargaming vendor of your choice. It is the winner's choice but the vendor must offer the purchase and delivery of an electronic gift card. Amazon.com is an example of a book vendor fitting this criteria as are Eureka Miniatures, Brigade Games, and Newline Designs. There are many others. If the winner can find a vendor offering this capability, gift card will be purchased and voucher sent on via email.3 x USD $25.00 Gift Cards will be awarded

70 comments:

Jonathon - please enter me in your draw. Thanks for 5 years before the screen - it's great to follow your adventures, especially as your interests tend to overlap my odd interests so well at times.Cheers,PeterPS How mow much do I need to clog your comment box to get in the top 10?

What a superb idea, but I think it should be the other way around .... we should all get you a gift for the unstinting way that you support other peoples blog as well as inspiring others to paint via your own blog. Thank you.

I would of course be pleased to enter the draw, if only to stop Ray winning, who has just entered himself twice :-)

Hi Jonathan, as one of your regular followers who fails to sufficiently thank you for your efforts and your entertaining blog I shall do so now! Your deliberations and adventures have even reached Belgium, and I for one thoroughly enjoy them without the extra incentive. So here's to the next five years!

If you like, put my name into the hat and if I win you can keep the prize and use it to buy some stuff for any newbie who pops along to play with yourself and who doesn't have any toys of their own. Win, win, then for the hobby.

Ha, alright Jonathan, I tell you what, then. If my name's drawn from the hat, we'll sort something out and I'll have some stuff that I can use with my own gaming in the Catterick Garrison area of the UK for exactly the same purpose :)

I'm in Jon! Given how often I visit here I'm a bit ashamed I haven't commented more often - or at least not often enough to end up in the top commentators list! Being a fan of this sort of thing I have also put a pimping post together: https://natholeonsempires.blogspot.co.nz/2017/09/pwj-giveaway.html

Oddly enough I was thinking of something to celebrate 300 posts, that should occur about year's end, and hadn't even registered that it was the five year anniverasary. Before we left on our trip I had a ckean up in my study and found three 15mm buildings that I think I will paint up and offer as prizes!